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Will Sunak survive the worst Conservative Party performance in 40 years?
National World - LocalTV
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03/05/2024
Analysis from politics expert Dr Steve McCabe
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Looking at the worst performance of the Conservative Party in 40 years, this will only increase
00:07
calls for SEMAC to go.
00:09
Well, we remain to see what happens in terms of the mayoral elections and clearly Ben Houchin
00:16
winning T's value.
00:19
That's a bright spot as it were.
00:22
And indeed, it's not all brilliant news for Labour.
00:25
It's good, but quite clearly Labour have lost out in areas where there's a high Muslim voter
00:35
because of course Gaza.
00:36
So, there are issues.
00:37
But yeah, I think the direction of travel in so far as what we've seen so far would
00:42
suggest that Labour are on to win the election.
00:45
But we're talking before the mayoral concerts have been announced, certainly in Manchester,
00:50
which of course Andy Burnham is expected to retain.
00:55
But it depends on the swings.
00:56
And indeed, I saw the results in other places that potentially there could be a lot to hope
01:04
for for both sides.
01:05
So, as I say, the big one certainly in the West Midlands is Andy Street, which won't
01:09
be announced till tomorrow.
01:10
I was also going to say that Ian Dunsmith, I had him being interviewed on the radio,
01:14
and it's amazing how he was spinning it.
01:17
He was not decrying the fact that it's pretty bad news as far as the Conservatives are concerned.
01:22
But they still believe they've got a lot to play for.
01:25
The big question, of course, is that will this be enough for the party to decide they've
01:29
had enough and they need to hit the nuclear button and go for a new leadership or the
01:35
new leader, whoever that may be in the range of candidates that we can talk about?
01:41
Or will they decide, well, we're going to go down, so we might as well wait and see
01:44
what happens.
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And indeed, coming back to, I think, Sonek believes if he's under threat, he may just
01:50
call an election anyway.
01:51
So I think it's all finely balanced.
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But I say so far, so bad for the Conservatives, but it's not quite as bad as it might have
01:59
been.
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